This Ed Sheeran song is apparently about Ellie Goulding cheating on him – while she was at his party. Ouch

Hell hath no fury like a songwriter scorned… Ellie Goulding and Ed Sheeran dated briefly last year (Picture: Instagram)

If you cheat on a songwriter, you can expect the full extent of your philandering ways to be exposed in a track – and that’s exactly what Ed Sheeran has gone and done to a certain famous ex of his.

In his new song Don’t, Ed lays into a famous ex (apparently it’s Ellie Goulding) for cheating on him with a mutual friend, explaining how she ‘ended up physically involved with a friend in the same hotel we were staying in, while I was downstairs.’

The pair only dated for a couple of months last year but it seems it was enough to inspire Ed to pen a new track for his new album X.

Who has Ellie, 27, dated since Ed? One Direction star Niall Horan and McBusted’s Dougie Poynter.

The lyrics:

‘I never saw him as a threat, ’Til you disappeared with him to have sex’, and ‘I’m downstairs at my party and you’re upstairs doing that, that’s disrespectful.’

The chorus:

‘Don’t f*** with my love.’

More lyrics:

‘We make money the same way… you were looking for a lover to BURN.’

What like, this kind of Burn…?

But he could have gone further.

‘The story in Don’t is 100 per cent true. I could have gotten nastier — there was more s*** that I didn’t put in,’ the 23-year-old singer/songwriter told Billboard magazine.

Unrepentant Ed continued: ‘If you date a songwriter, be prepared to have songs written about you.

‘If you do nice things, you’ll have nice songs. And if you do f***ed-up things, you’ll get a horrible song.’

Representatives for both Ed Sheeran and Ellie Goulding declined to comment when contacted by Metro.co.uk.